Alois Rainer | |
|---|---|
_160.jpg) Rainer in 2025 | |
| Minister of Agriculture, Food and Community | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Cem Özdemir(as Minister of Food and Agriculture) |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Mayor ofHaibach | |
| In office 16 March 1996 – 16 March 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1965-01-07)7 January 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party | CSU (since 1989) |
| Relations | Gerda Hasselfeldt (sister) |
| Children | 2 |
Alois Georg Josef Rainer (born 7 January 1965) is a Germanbutcher and politician of theChristian Social Union in Bavaria who has been serving asMinister of Agriculture, Food and Community in thegovernment ofChancellorFriedrich Merz since 2025.[1] He has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria since 2013.
Alois Rainer was born in 1965 and grew up in Haibach in theBavarian Forest. His father was Alois Rainer senior, a butcher and ran a restaurant and was also a politician (CSU).
Rainer inherited not only his father's butchery trade, but also his political career. Both began as mayors in the Lower Bavarian community of Haibach, which has a population of 8,000, before becoming members of the Bundestag – with the older sister making a brief stint in theBavarian state parliament.
Alois Rainer's older sisterGerda Hasselfeldt was also member of the German Bundestag for 30 years from 1987 to 2017 for CSU.[2]
Rainer first became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[3] In parliament, he served on the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee from 2013 to 2019; in this capacity, he was his parliamentary group’srapporteur on theannual budget of theFederal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2019 to 2021 he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, where he is his parliamentary group’s spokesperson.[4] From 2021 to 2025, Rainer chaired the Finance Committee.[5]
Upon taking office, Rainer emphasized his desire to ensure less bureaucracy, more freedom, more innovation, and greater social appreciation for agriculture. He did not elaborate on these points. The biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis were not mentioned.[6]
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